Category Archives: Butterfly Chat

Jolanda Stachyshyn in Gisborne sent us these photos of a monarch caterpillar which has brown stripes instead of black. First time we’ve heard of it! Jolanda had been raising monarchs for over twenty years in Auckland before starting again in Gisborne.

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Kiwis are known for their ingenuity… and that often translates to the butterfly garden. In preparation for our stand at the NZ Flower and Garden Show this year we need your ideas as to how you recycle containers, tools and implements in your garden (or habitat) to make it more useful/successful in raising butterflies. You […]

Hi, just letting you know of a successful outcome of our one and only monarch, it hatched today – one month after turning into a chrysalis. It seems to have a deformed back leg but otherwise doing it’s normal butterfly thing of just hanging to dry its wings out. Hopefully it flies away and has […]

Caught this butterfly just emerged, hanging on a sandbag! Couldn’t imagine where it had come from as it was so close to the ground. Turned out it had made its chrysalis on one end of the sandbag – and when it emerged it had somehow moved itself about 30cm away to get enough clearance.